Planning Board, ZBA, site plans, subdivisions, comprehensive plan, zoning, development moratoriums, specific projects (cell towers, factories, redevelopment). The default for any project-or-parcel story.
Planning & development
The Town Board meets Thursday, June 18. On the agenda: a state grant to fund rewriting Webster's zoning code, an outside review of two Verizon cell towers, and a change on the Zoning Board of Appeals.
Planning & development
A development moratorium sounds sweeping. Webster's is narrow and precise, and on the ground it has frozen essentially one active project. Here is how the law actually works.
Local elections
A special election Tuesday, June 16, decides a contested Village trustee seat and a proposition moving part of a vacant Xerox industrial parcel into the Town. Only registered Village voters may vote.
Planning & development
You may have heard the ZBA mentioned at a town meeting or in a neighbor's permit dispute. Here is what it actually does, and how you can get involved.
Planning & development
The board tabled the Xerox solar farm permit challenge until July 14 and pushed Waterview Phase 3 to July. Five routine variance and permit applications were approved unanimously.
Planning & development
Webster Local Law No. 2 of 2026, enacted June 4, pauses commercial development approvals across every commercial zone in town. This explainer covers what's frozen, what's exempt, and which projects are already affected.
Planning & development
The town's Zoning Board of Appeals takes up a dispute over the Xerox campus solar farm's permit type and a 56-unit apartment complex that would need substantial front and buffer variances. Here is what to expect Tuesday night.
Community
A physical altercation at a June 1 flag-raising and an overflow public comment session dominated the board's June 4 meeting. The board also enacted a six-month commercial development moratorium and authorized litigation counsel for the Montante Solar case.
Planning & development
The Webster Town Board votes tonight on a six-month commercial development moratorium. A 6:30 p.m. workshop first takes up the town's 2027 property revaluation and a proposal to convert wastewater plant gas into a revenue-generating renewable fuel.
Planning & development
The Planning Board tabled a proposed pickleball complex on Five Mile Line Road as engineering concerns remain unresolved and a zoning moratorium looms. A drive-through coffee kiosk on Hard Road got preliminary approval.
Planning & development
A 39,100-square-foot recreation complex is the centerpiece of an 11-item Planning Board agenda Tuesday night.
Planning & development
Webster's comprehensive plan is 18 years old. A $650 million dairy plant, Xerox campus land, and a queue of applications are all governed by rules from 2008. The town voted in April to pause. That pause has not taken effect, and it will not cover everything.